{"id":2280941,"date":"2026-02-13T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2280941"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:23:14","slug":"how-aragorn-inspired-margot-robbies-ideal-leading-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-aragorn-inspired-margot-robbies-ideal-leading-man\/","title":{"rendered":"How Aragorn Inspired Margot Robbie&#8217;s Ideal Leading Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Margot Robbie would&#8217;ve &#8220;risked it all&#8221; for Lord of Rings character Aragon during her teenage years.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old actress had a high school crush on Danish-American actor Viggo Mortensen&#8217;s alter-ego in the fantasy film franchise, and the star joked she has &#8220;a type&#8221; after likening Aragon to her Wuthering Heights co-star Jacob Elordi&#8217;s character Heathcliff.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by E! News whether she had a high school celebrity crush who she would&#8217;ve &#8220;risked it all for&#8221; when she was 16, Margot &#8211; who plays Heathcliff&#8217;s lover Cathy in the new movie &#8211; said: &#8220;I would&#8217;ve risked it all for Aragon from Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s kind of giving Heathcliff in the first half of the movie with the long hair and the beard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a type I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Margot also told that while intimate scenes could often be &#8220;quite technical&#8221; to shoot on the movie, she admitted there was sometimes more passion in &#8220;argument scenes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;I think those scenes often end up being quite technical.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They require quite a bit of choreography. 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